mǔ
male of animals
Depicts a cow (牛) with a penis (丄). In oracle bone script the animals varied in deception, such as a pig (豕), a deer (鹿), sheep (羊), horse (馬), etc.
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 牡
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
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oyster | ||
Mudan District of Heze City 菏澤市|菏泽市[HézéShì], Shandong | ||
key | ||
Mudanjiang prefecture level city in Heilongjiang province 黑龍江|黑龙江[Hēilóngjiāng] in northeast China | ||
Mudanjiang prefecture level city in Heilongjiang province 黑龍江|黑龙江[Hēilóngjiāng] in northeast China |
Sources
季旭昇《說文新證》p.91-92